Sonia Marie Barry (Unangax̂ and Alutiiq) is a federally enrolled member of the Native Village of Ouzinkie and a descendant of Cook Inlet Region Incorporated. She is a doctoral candidate in the University of Washington Tacoma’s Muckleshoot Cohort, where her work centers Indigenous story, art, and place as living practices that carry memory, responsibility, and care across generations. (Re)Creation Stories shares how storytelling and visual art support Indigenous identity, healing, and remembering in relationship with land and community.

A public school educator, administrator, and visual artist, her work has been exhibited at the Washington State History Museum’s In the Spirit Contemporary Arts Exhibition, where her painting Assimilation (2021) received the People’s Choice Award. Her short story Footprints will appear in Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood in fall 2026.